Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Chris Plummer wrote: > [snip] > > indy-01$ cc test.c -mips2 > > indy-01$ ./a.out > > bash: ./a.out: No such file or directory > > What happens with -static? > This fixes the problem. I'm not sure why.
> [snip] > > The reason I'm using -mips2 is because there is a bug in gcc that causes > > it to fail to compile a very large (>32k) function I have. It produces > > forward branches to targets that are out of range. Using -mips2 fixes > > this problem. > > Older compilers (like the one in woody) take -mips2 as a hint to generate > o32 code. Newer ones use -mips2 as an alias for -arch=r6000 and rely on > the -mabi switch for ABI selection. > I don't see the relationship between out-of-range forward branches and the ABI. They should be independent. <snip> Chris Plummer
